In an interview with New York Times reporter Emily Bazelon, US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg defended the controversial Roe vs. Wade decision that legalized abortion throughout the United States, calling it essential for ensuring that society can lawfully control population growth.

Ginsburg said she was concerned that since the 1973 Court case was decided some states have taken measures aimed at limiting the scope of abortions. This is a case, I think, where society must preserve its options, Ginsburg said. Requiring under-age girls to get parental permission, for example, is a step in precisely the wrong direction. These girls arent ready for motherhood. Terminating their pregnancies is the wise choice. We shouldnt be impeding it.

The Justice also castigated the congress passage of the so-called Hyde Amendment in 1980 forbidding federal funds from being used to perform abortions. That affected a segment of the population that needed culling, Ginsburg asserted. Forcing the birth of these children breeds all manner of social ills driving up other costs that the government must incur to support these children and to arrest and incarcerate them as they grow up. Nipping them in the bud, so to speak wouldve been the more efficient course of action.

In related news, President Obama reiterated his complaint that he is being unfairly criticized by anti-abortion extremists. They talk as if I have blood on my hands, Obama said. The truth is, Ive never personally harmed a single unborn child. I am just a public servant carrying out the wishes of the voters on this difficult issue. My aim has been to balance competing objectives in the best interests of society as a whole. Right now, that society demands that abortion be legal and freely available even to those who cant afford it.

Whether Obamas claim of that a lack of direct participation in the performing of any abortion absolves him of moral responsibility is dubious. Hitler never personally harmed a single Jew either.

It seems to me that Hitler’s form of eugenics (Jews, homosexuals, mentally challenged) is horrific. Period. No “ands”, “Ifs” or “buts”. But to a liberal, the eugenics is only troublesome if they aren’t the ones to pick which trees get pruned.

The original progressives were not that progressive: they proposed eugenic remedies for the immigrants, women, blacks and mental defectives they blamed for low wages, promoted an illiberal vision of women’s economics interests, endorsed survival of the fittest doctrine (so long as the state chose the fittest), advocated imperial adventures, and embraced the scientifically managed corporation. A more complete portrait of the progressives recognizes this illiberal strain in progressive economic reform and its origins in anti-individualism, statism, social efficiency, and planning by scientific experts.

Thomas C. Leonard

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posted on 07/18/2009 8:03:00 AM PDT
by A. Morgan
(The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. Lawrence)

The words in this interview, if they are true, ring like the perverted view that liberals and Democrats have of Conservatives and republicans as elitists.

Utterly striking! I think she's erroneously exposed the true feelings of liberals have for the downtrodden massess of their 'voting army'. All the while, they secretly have plans to cull the rolls from the vermin that have assisted them in attaining their rightful power.

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Ginsburg said. Requiring under-age girls to get parental permission, for example, is a step in precisely the wrong direction. These girls arent ready for motherhood. Terminating their pregnancies is the wise choice. We shouldnt be impeding it.

WHAT? Sorry, but I have RIGHTS as a parent to KNOW WTF is going on with MY child!!! F- the state’s “rights” to make that decision FOR me.

Torches and pitchforks! This B&^$% has NO RIGHT WHAT SO EVER to advocate MURDER!!!! How did this piece of filth even get INTO the courtroom let alone on the bench? The woman is no better than a NAZI!

It’s hard to tell the difference between satire and truth anymore. Ginsberg did say this, however, she just used different wording. It was even worse, as I recall, because it was about getting rid of people we want less of.

"Ive never personally harmed a single unborn child." I worked hard in the Illinois legislature to protect abortionists in South side Chicago who were euthanizing just born alive little boys and girls via induced labor abortion, but I never addressed slaughtering those unwanted unborn. Barack Hussein Obama, aka Barry Soetoro, aka Barry Dunham, aka Barry Obama

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posted on 07/18/2009 8:46:34 AM PDT
by MHGinTN
(Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)

So this means that the poor shall be denied access to raising children? How many poor people have raised children only to bring forth to the world a child who would grow up to greatness. Has anyone forgot Jesus Christ? Joseph and Mary were pretty poor and Ginsburg would have been the first to yell, “Get that Mary over for an abortion! She can’t afford to have a kid!”

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posted on 07/18/2009 9:38:36 AM PDT
by jonrick46
(The Obama Administration is a blueprint for Fabian Socialism.)

Hey why should she worry. She was confirmed by one of the highest number of senators in history. Only 3 senators said no? Wow! She must have had a hell of a confirmation hearing. I did not watch them...not too into politics then but she must have hit a serious home run!!!!

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